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D. OONNER & P. A. S. PERRY. COMBINED SHUTTER BQWER AND FASTENER.

Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

INVENTORS.

WITNESSES: Z-QVJ44 ATTORNEYS.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID CONN ER, OF GROTON, CONNECTICUT, AND FREDERICK A. S. PERRY, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

CCMBINED SHUTTER BOWER AND FASTENER.

EEPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,396, datedDecember 14, 1886.

Application filed January 15, 1886. Renewed November 17, 1886. SerialNo. 219,162. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it 12mg concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID CONNIER, of Groton, in the county of NewLondon and State of Connecticut, and FREDERICKA. S. PERRY, of New York,in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Shutter Bowers and Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a 1 description.

Our invention is an improved shutter bower and fastener; and it consistsin certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will behereinafter described and specified.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our device inconnection with portions of a window and a shutter. Fig. 2is a detailtop plan view of the apparatus, a block being secured to the outerconnection-bracket. Fig. 3 is a cross-section drawn through the movablesection of the inner bracket and the securingplate, and Fig. i is adetail perspective View of the inner connection-bracket.

In the use of our invention a verticallymovable bolt or latch, A, issecured to the inner side of a shutter, B, as shown. The securing-plate(l is provided with a series of notches or openings, 1, arranged in thearc of a circle and adapted to be entered by the bolt A in the operationpresently described. This plate 0 is preferably provided with slots 2 2for the bracket-securing screws. It is also preferred to provide thesecuring-plate with a screw-hole, 3, at its outer end, and with a finalopening, 4, at its inner end.

It will be understood that the securing-plate might be secured by screwsor otherwise directly to the window-lintel, with curved series ofopenings 1 in an arc centering at'the pintle of the hinge of shutter B,and in position to be entered by the bolt A, by which the shutter may beheld open, closed, or at any intermediate position. It is. preferred,however,

to use the connection-brackets at one or both ends of thesecuring-plate. These brackets D D are pivotally supported at 5, so theymay be turned to correspond with and rest flat against the lintel in theapplication of the apparatus for use. It is also preferred to conmeetthe brackets to-the plate A so they may be adjusted lougitudinallyofsuchplate. This may be secured by connecting the bracket.di rectly to theplate by a swivel and clamping screw, E, passed through one of the slots2, as shown in the case of the outer bracket; but it is preferablyaccomplished, especially in the case of the inner bracket, by formingthe latter in two sections-the bracket proper and a section, 6, havingflanges 7, fitting on opposite sides of the plate A, and secured theretoat any point of adjustment by a screw, E, passed through the slot 2 andinto the section 6. This section 6, it will be seen, is movable on theplate A and past the inner end thereof, in which case it formssubstantially an extension. It will be noticed that the section 6 isprovided with openings fitted to receive the bolt when the plate 6ismoved past the inner end of the securing-plate. By this extension, itwill be seen, the securing-plate may be adjusted to bring its openings 1into an arc struck from the pintle of the hinge.

The opening 4 at the inner end of the plate C is fitted to receivethe-bolt- A, and enables the shutter to be locked in its closedposition.

WVhen the lintel extends but a short distance laterally beyond thewindowopening, it is sometimes necessary to secure the outerconncction-bracket to a block, 8, as shown in Fig. 2, which block isnailed or otherwise made fast to the side of the house.

The invention, it will be seen, provides a simple construction which canbe easily applied, aud will be efiicient in pse for the desired purpose.

Manifest] y the sectional bracket may be used on either end of thesecuring-plate shown, so the same device may be used on a right or aleft shutter.

Having thus described our invention, what.

we claim as new is 1. A securing-plate for shutter bowers and fasteners,having a series of notches or openings curved in the arc of a circle,combined with a connectionbracket connected with said securing plate andpivoted, whereby it may be I the other being pivotally connected withthe adjusted, substantially as set forth. movable section, substantiallyas set forth.

2. In a shutterbower and fastener, the coinbination, with asecuring-plate, of a connec- PERRY 5 tion-bracket secured to said plateand adj ustable therealong in a longitudinal direction, Witnesses toGonners signature: substantially as and for the purposes specified.GEORGE Goss,

3. A shutter bower and fastener consisting HARRIS T. FITCH. of asecuring-plate and a connection-bracket \Vitnesses to Perrys signature;[0 formed in two sections, one being connected P. B. TURPIN,

with and movable on the securing-plate, and SOLON O. KEMON,

